The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 10, 1909, Page 1

TAR SEATTLE NT GLUGG GHT OTR PAUP OSITION (ALITTLE STORY OF PROFITS ld city hall site for 50 years at the The lease « offered by feaseholder would be worth to MILLION DOL- K. Struve TWENTY-THREE ous problem in compound in n the building at $100,000, with F amount ts to © the leasct mark \ Mts is over t ‘and the lea Fin the bank interest on | ane a million eight hu #8 above sixteen million, est on the fi le the interes pthan twenty! protits run up to an aston years the interest on the profits } t » three the In a half reached the five rental of the rilding ahead over and profit the end of are the have interest on the rofits of the build- n dol time the lease has run 40 years 30 years the the rental p ers have nearly seven mi considerably over six hun its have totaled to « pre while the bank a and in the and 45 the the prof over At years the interest on the fits usand dollars fiftieth year the aver a million dollars a year, | principal amount to a few thousands ree million dollars. of Federated Revelle Says It Would Be Adopts Strong Short Sighted in City to! eA gainet City Enter Into Such committee of the Improvement clubs unanimously passed ytaterday afternoon they were unalter- to the proposed ise of the old city hal! ich individual improve- of the city will take latter, and im line with ent expressed at the yesterday, will no mn the proposition. will be asked to take wp with the councilmen and to wage a bitter echeme. L Hill said at the meet- to the city's enter. proposition to farm extent that 0 after yoars the building would stand as a living monument to the short sightedness and utter lack of business judgment on the part of the present administration.” The above by Councilman T. P-. morning concerning Struve lease site. 7 Revelle the dare vote that,” he sald. There are. five, 1 belleve, would favor such a scheme, but don’t believe that they would dare | show thelr hands. “No, I don't believe that the bill will ever get beyond the commit- Bleonference committee down the proposition Pas of the improvement city, and the action tee. “This Struve joment was made! this proposed |deathe were reported this morning of the old city hal] /0# the result of the terrific heat Inet “No councilman with any regard | morning, but the weather bureau for his political future would ever | Predicts that it will be hotter. for such a scheme a who Proposition seems to be « furtherance of « general OnTY HAG DIE OF HEAT INN HK Caught in the Blistering | Embrace and the Little Lives Snuffed Out Terrific Heat Wave, in (By Untied Proms YORK, Aug 40 the jnumber ince the great Blocum din | lie in the morgue j the result of the torrifie heat which | |has locked the | NEW bodies of 10.—-The bables Kreatest | aster today an} greater city In al | biistering embrace. | Five adults are dead the horses have to be changed almost jhourly at the big public hospitals, |there are so many calls / T ty-weven bables have died tn | Foundling asylum, and the other 13 tn other hospitals and pri }vate homes | More than women soores are }proatrated, and ambulance | 10,000 persons, men, | and children, slept on the dis at Coney Inland last night,| aving been driven out of the swel toring city to the seaside, whore / gaining the relief from the Joc an air, they could not return to the ovendike flate and the Walls, hot all night with the retain-| jod heat of the day In the parks througho last night the priced more highly than rooms in ja high-priced hotel. Thousands Jelept In the parks | The suffering among the jon the Kast side is the wo ture of the eseene. In the tenet districts the fire have been turned inte lsleeping rooms, but with little re Hef to the vietima of the heat The oppressive of yesterday caused mainly by the > hum dity, was | not decreased much during the! jnight, and this morning the city ed after an simost lous . saw no rellef near it Manhat }tan benches were children t fen atifiing T lable but the great crowd jing as long a8 poeple work, | wenal Everyone who could get away from town has gone, but the aswel. toring miltions aro here, and those | who are fortunate enough to have! jeseaped to the seaside are not | missed, unboar: | linger away from) came down town in it ae CHICAGO, Aug. 10—Three! jnight. I te slightly cooler thia | } | TRMINED HIS IF I THEN DISAPPEARED = j aftns “* TO KILL AIS RIVAL: After much thought and scheme to gain control of every.) Boenaad valuable si base elty,” he said. | AN SHOT. THIS: N -HE ADMITS IT MT. VEANON, II, / tL, Aug. 10.— The sheriff today renewed hie search for Ben Maci, Mt. Ver non, following the startling con- fession by his wife that he taught her to use a revolver so she could kill Joe Rodi, who, he believed, was hia rival for her affect! me 5 SAYS HE WILL pie! when I met her Saturday night she | _ ‘ HE TELLS simply whipped out a gun and "” { HER NAME. ted me. I won't tell who she It's our affair, and | would ra’ ee z dle than point her ont to you.” Hig before | tell who Although Vancoy is in a serious It was a woman, ai condition, his wound is not consld- ered fatal | ea poviimsieicsienel CRRST RARER AHS ‘ BOLT STRIKES WIRE; KILLS 125 SPARROWS Bob Vancoy, a ten iney hotel, who wes 8 bullet hole in his left PAN av. aud Blanchard night wp Vancoy insisted been held up by a According to his put up a fight against BE Which caused the latter shots at him to the Pacific how he stabboraly main be had been «hot by a ia. Today, however, he Captain Detectives d Ht that a woman's the cause of the shoot pelous of PARDON, MA ‘HORSEMULP Ib USED TO AVENGE INGUL (By United Pree) The efforts of the legisla tive investigating committee to determine whether Mrs. Sarah L. Brown sotually at- pted to “fix” Judge Root, of the supreme court, through the influence of €, 8. Palmer, were brought to an abrupt ter- mination this morning, when Mrs. Brown fainted on the wit ness stand. Yesterday P. F. Morrow testified *\ that Mrs. Brown had interviewed */ i, B. Palmer a number of times, In ® | pursuance of the scheme of “fram ing up" a deciston which they | wanted the supreme court to pass. | Mrs. Brown, when subpoenaed at | the afternoon session, was reported Hill, Today she appeared and took | ling stand, acknowledging that she thad already had an interview this |morning with her attorney, Jay © aaa FINDLAY, Ohio, Ang. 10. One hundred and twenty-five sparrows were «iting on a telephone wire that ran through several trees before It entered the home of Ed Camp. bell in East Findlay Mr Campbell ia certain of the number because he counted that many dead birds today after t had been toppled to the ground by a volt of light ning which struck the wire. i | | eeeeeteeene see rt a eeteetee ete tees e me er esc "Mlk alkalies jakes a Poor Witness. The woman made a very poor ASHEVILLE, N.C. Aug. 19—~! witness, Her lapses of memory Mrs. EB. Clyde Knight, soclety wore numerons, especially whenever wornan of Rome, Ga, sent a note tO/4 member of the committee began & prominent citizen, urging him to) to agk leading questions, Frequent- mect her at a dewgnated spot. It}jy sre, Brown insisted on her legal was raining at the appointed hour, | rights, aud after all other witnensen but both parties kept the engage-| were excluded, Attorney Allen In mént. The prominent citizen got ®/ terrupted the session a couple of warm reception. Mrs. Knight! times to protest against Infringing horsewhipped him, and later made) ypon any legal rights of his client him apologize in the presence of his| As nearly as could be lenrned wife, She claimed he insulted her I she had agreed to finance the fight fot Mollie Wilson for the Ballard [kee RRR RIK Dorion of the Sullivan estate, As BANK CLEARINGS. *& {to the details of the later transac - # | tons, payments of money, identifi # {cation of people Interested, dawe #| years, contracts, deeds and prac wi tically everything else that wa 7 touctied on, Mra. Brown either ) Aug. 10.—| Mining town of Lily,} * marshal meer, Gov. Wilson has par Mi Hodge ng three larce It is prob take the job. The & petition trom resl- WY, in which town was et & marshal fared to a Of ite dangers LSS eee IER FORECAST Warmer; light north danger None me the Seattle. Clearings today Balances . » * * * * * Tacom 19 16,197.00 86,024.00 *& Clearings today * Balances \* Portland. \® Clearings today... 177,716.00 at |* Balances 114,008.00 OOOO OTOTOTOI OT TATION PRR rN, D. C., Aug. 10 has been appoint: | On route No #| was not sure, or she “did not ex # actly remember.” Statements at Variance. *| Mrs, Brown denied emphatically , WASHIN HOM E EDITION GTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST. , 10, 1909 BALLINGER GAVE MILLIONS TO GREAT WATER POWER TRUST WHERE BALLINGER FED THE TRUST wrsttinil7 qucorwa* Map showing Montar closed, after 14 days and streams in every inet. they a “yve..Lowstore PARK & Na lande which Beoretary Ballinger reopened for entry, and which Taft ordered The drawing shows how these valuable lands (marked in black) follow rivers ance, They were classed at the land office on a par with worthless lands, but enormously rich because they hotd hundreds of water power sites. = MURDER MAY PINCHOT STARTS OPEN ~ GROW OUT OF TAG AFFAI Did Theod Olewon Hoe at the City hoxplt broken neck, but yet the bridge at Sixth « neetiout at, or was b j pushed off by a man wh with him Honday night? ‘Thie tw the question whieh how pital physictane and the poltee answered. New light m the affair yesterday when ©. W. Rayle, of 1 and Victor Salm allied « hospital and told Dr. I what they k w the Interne t and I were abou distant whe talking 6 sald Rayle. “Buddenly one now know was ¢ morely jot his Tate, the man on the bri er and commenced to d 1 started after the f was laughing fast thal we i We notived ar the edge at of th balance but he ra could not ca At the City hospital this morning Fone told with diffiout was with a Frenchman, ays lives near the Bay View brew Jery, on that might, Just before he fel! or was shoved off the br gon had been drinking does not think his Hberately pushed him The pollee are inetituting a h for Oleson's com: *} * Sontinued on Page Three, det m, whom t la WARFARE FOR PEOP Launches the Fight Against Ballinger and Deals Out Punches Against Policy of the Secretary of the In- terior, at the Same Time Flaying the Water Power Trust and Lauding Americans. SPOKANE, Aug. 10.—Soonding the first nove of open warfare Secretary Ballinger and upholding the Roosevelt policies, denouncing the administration of the law by | technicalities and excoriating the gigantic water power trust, Chief | Forester Gifford Pinchot tod the National Irrigation cong with excitement in a stirring | | | | wh " oi with mw} fall from | het ately / | o wan een | wieh} thrown afternoon 4 10th av, at th B. Gr of the ut 60 yards 1 tho men he brie” bim. The chief forester, nothing daunt opponents, delivered a scath tack on what he triclous methods the public weal. In closing his remarks, chot sald Water Power Trust. “There could be no better (lustra jon of the eager, rapid unwearted | absorption by capital of the rights ty that he GIFFORD PINCHOT, eon belong to all the pople than | whom he } water power trust, not yet form at termed the mere junged or working against At any} dan net h. Balm low whe n away eo teh him.” } Mr, Pin eee ed but in rapid process of formation. RARER ARR AA AAEM Phin statement ia true, but not un # Ac¥eoP, EXPOSITION AT. # challenged. We are met at every * TENDANCE. # turn by the indignant denial of the ® Monday's adminsions, 24,484 & | W8ter power Interests Total for the season ..1,769,241 w| “They tell us that th ISBEBR ERS SEE Y EYES Continued on P. idee. Ole Me says he panton de from the ¢ Is no com panion Seven. WOMAN WITNESS FAINTS WHEN SHE IS QUESTIONED TOO CLOSELY TODAY PF. MORROW. WITNESS WHO SPRUNG THE SENSATION G livehinn Committee Will Go to Olympia and Con- | tinue Investigation, AMEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE WHO 1S IMPLICATED IN THE CHARGES. PETER DAvid ASKS POINTED QUES TIONS CHAIRMAN HAL SEY DOE. THE CROSS- _EYAMINING Kos with | ed by the power or backing of his | _Isite has to be ROOSEVELT DID BEST TO SAVE PUBLIC WEALTH ‘Secretary Was Giving Away Sites With Lavish Hand Until Public Clamor Com- pelled Taft to Call a Halt, But Damage Is Done and People Must Pay BY GAMUEL M. EVANS, STAFF CORRESPONDENT, | HELENA, Mont., Aug. 10.—This is the true story | of how the birthright of a great state has been taken \to round out the greatest American trust. The state is Montana. The trust is the Water Power monopoly, the lyoungest and destined to be the greatest of all the | brood of American monopolies. There is proof at hand that one of the first offi- jcial acts of President Taft's secretary of the interior, | Richard Achilles Ballinger, was knowingly to turn over to the Water Power monopoly millions of dollars’ worth of power sites along Montana river. Water power will succeed steam, and “white coal,” as the water power is called, will run the railroads of the future. Not only that, the electric power gen- erated by mountain torrents will be sent across the | Plains to operate the mills and factories of many states | of the nation, and most important of all, this wonder- ful new power will pump endless floods of water upon millions of acres of arid lands, and so make new homes for millions of Americans. WILL EXACT TRIBUTE FOR ETERNITY But the water power trust will be in a position to |exact tribute from every settler, and from his children forever. | It was in the closing days of his administration that |President Roosevelt learned of the wholesale seizing |of water powers by the then forming trust. The grab |was at its height. The president sent surveyors and ex- |perts from half a dozen government bureaus into the |field to find out what was going on. The first and “unanimous report was that the woods and hills were full of the engineers and surveyors of the trust, and -|that the trust had better maps of public lands than the government had. So Roosevelt had Secretary Garfield end the grab | by resuming government control of public lands con- ' taining power sites. It was generally supposed that Garfield was to re- main in Taft's cabinet, but on February 15 he was asked by Taft to resign on March 4. Not knowing who the new secretary would be, President Roosevelt and Garfield decided to lock all the doors so that the new administration would find everything snug. Day and night the engineers worked on their plans, jand the LAST THING President Roosevelt did at mid- jnight on March 4, was to withdraw more land, to |the extent of 186,000,000 acres, from the reach of | land grabbers. And the FIRST THING Ballinger did after he was |sworn into Taft's cabinet on March 5, was to begin |to turn that land over to the half entrenched trust. The throwing open of these had pre when a h which called the d legates | to their feet Ume and again to choer | | | | } , one not to be worth a miliide dollars A political explosion will come with the public knowl- edge that it was after President aft had ordered Ballinger to withdraw certain Montana lands, which he had quietly re- opened a few weeks that the Amalgamated Copper com- pany, sed fe tide heard lands gTes or month rising of at the called popular protest wa | the White clamor increasing and Taft House, | Ballinger in to explain By and another, | Ballinger jmeantine kept throwing \and Jopen to entry, and was ag called to the White Hous this time the public was ¢ to understand that the had again been one excuse befor secured delay, and “9 owned by Senator Gug- genheim and brothers, together with the Ge neral Electric com- pany, had swallowed thousands acres of these ortant yntana lands, holding power f untold wealth Produce Scandal. The relation of the of strenuous transactions in which the government and the tfust’s agents figure are being urged as proper matter for an official ain and en public) of with-| Mc sites lands draw But it was to had had warning time The them, were grabbed Right here it might be well to remark that a water a inighty » late—the trust and had had dates power power small (Continued on Page 7)